The chapter opens with a conversation between a young man and his boss. The young man asks the boss about his friend, who has been kidnapped. The boss tells him that the young man has been hypnotized and that he needs to come to the spa club to pay the bill. The old man tells the new man that he has killed a hedgehog in order to compensate the people of the jungle for the loss of their loved one. He says that even if he were to die, he would not be like the old man because he would be a poor ghost. He also says that he would like to see him in the future if he should run into trouble. The new man says he wants to be a "dreamless guy" and he will go first.